Hanger



V. D'AMATO RANGER Fi1ed Feb; 13, 1934 INVENOR. BYVINCENT D'FHTHT ATTRN Patentecl Oct. 2, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1 Claim.

This invention relates to improvements in coat hangers and has particular reference to a hanger wherein pants, skirts and the like garments may be readily hung therefrom, without causing wrinkles to appear in the garment.

A further object is to provide a hanger which Will conform t0 standard practices of hanging clothes in stores and like places.

A still further object is to produce a devise which is economical t0 manufacture, one which is neat in appearance and one which may be roughiy handled without danger et breakage.

Other objects and advantages Will be apparent during the course of the following description.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification and in which like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the saine,

The figure illustrates a side elevation of my invention.

The ordinary coat hanger is usually provided with a single bar extending between the two arms of the hanger and over these bars skirts, trousers and the 1ike garments are usually hung with the result that this bar causes a crease, for instance in trousers partway the length of the legs. In using the same for skirts it is usually necessary to first fold the skirt and then bang the same over the bar which results in a wrinkle at the point of fold and also a wrinkle extending around the skirt at the point where it is folded over the bar. Applicant has therefore devised a new form of hanger wherein a pair of hooks are formed integral With thebar so that the edges of the garment such as the waistband of a skirt or waistband of a pair of trousers may be hung therefrom, either through direct contact or through the use of loops sewed to the garment being hung thereon. Through this arrangement it is obvious that a number of garments may be hung from the same hanger without one interfering with the other to cause wrinkles. This is a desirable feature in stores, particularly in mens stores where two pair of trousers are included in a suit et clothes.

In the accompanying drawing wherein for the purpose of illustration is shown a preferred embodiment of my invention, the numeral 5 designates the usual hook employed to suspend the hanger from any suitable support. The hangar itself consists of arms 6 and 7 having a contour which is best suited for the hanging of a coat.

My invention consists in employing a bar 8 which extends into the arms 6 and 7 and has its ends secured by a fastening element 9. Formed at the opposite ends of the bar 8 are hooks 11 and 12, the nose of each hook extending in opposite directions, and are positioned at a point beneath the arms 6 and 7, respectively, and within the outer margins of the arms, which prevents the hooks from being caught upon other garments in replacing of empty hangers upon the rack.

It will thus be seen that by employing the hooks 11 and 12, a pair of trousers may be hung thereto through the employment of 1oops formed upon the waistband of trousers, or that several pairs of trousers may also be hung from the hooks by the same medium. It is also apparent that the waistband itself may be caught over the hooks, thus suspending the trousers in a manner which will not injure the crease therein or cause unnecessary wrinkles. The hanging of a skirt or 1ike garment Will be performed in the same manner.

It is to be understood that the form of my invention herewith shown and described is to be taken as a preferred example of the same and that various changes relative to the material, size, shape and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the subjoined claim.

Having chus described my invention, I claim:

In a hanger for clothes, a pair of diverging arms, each of said arms having a socket formed therein, a bar extending between said arms and having its ends positioned in said sockets, said bar having hooks formed integral therewith and adjacent the opposite end of said bar, the ends of said hooks being positioned beneath said arms and at a point above the horizontal plane of the lower extremity of said arms, and each of said hooks terminating in an upwardly projecting end in close proximity to said arms.

VINCENT DAMATO. 

